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Anonymous

February 8, 2008

I don’t think it’s particularly game-changing at all. The Flash environment is touring-complete, so you can make it do anything. I think the real question is, “is this qualitatively, or quantitatively better than the way I currently manipulate images”. For me, the answer is no, not yet. I don’t have to have web connectivity in order to use my editor of choice, and my editor of choice is faster, and has more features. It also builds upon years of “growing up” with the app. Inertia plays a big role in “fat application” use.

To me, even without the collaborative features, having a fully featured image editor running off the web built in Flash is actually a pretty important milestone. If not for the design world (although I believe it is) at least from a software industry point of view.

Some might find this move to web-based apps as a rather mundane ‘next step’ but it is truly going to change the software landscape. Just being able to access my files and work from 95% of the connected machines on the planet must be hailed as a pretty important step.

While I’m not going to switch to a web app version of Photoshop anytime soon – I do agree with Alex that this is a huge milestone for online apps. Its also pretty impressive what these Flash Developers have been able to achieve.

While I’m not going to switch to a web app version of Photoshop anytime soon – I do agree with Alex that this is a huge milestone for online apps. Its also pretty impressive what these Flash Developers have been able to achieve.

To me, even without the collaborative features, having a fully featured image editor running off the web built in Flash is actually a pretty important milestone. If not for the design world (although I believe it is) at least from a software industry point of view.

Some might find this move to web-based apps as a rather mundane ‘next step’ but it is truly going to change the software landscape. Just being able to access my files and work from 95% of the connected machines on the planet must be hailed as a pretty important step.

I don’t think it’s particularly game-changing at all. The Flash environment is touring-complete, so you can make it do anything. I think the real question is, “is this qualitatively, or quantitatively better than the way I currently manipulate images”. For me, the answer is no, not yet. I don’t have to have web connectivity in order to use my editor of choice, and my editor of choice is faster, and has more features. It also builds upon years of “growing up” with the app. Inertia plays a big role in “fat application” use.